A New Year in Auckland 2026
- Date
- Jan 16 - 17, 2026
- City
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Venue
Māngere Central Community Hall
- Address
- 241 Kirkbride Road, Māngere, Auckland 2022
- Details
Main Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Ashley Foster and Elyas Eyou
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Asbery and Nick Ng
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
A New Year in Auckland 2026 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.
This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience, or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.
Please make sure to read all the information in the FAQ and other tabs before registering. All competitors should be familiar with the information in these tabs.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 80
- Number of times bookmarked
- 1
- Registration period
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Online registration will be open from to .
- Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (New Zealand Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.